The Invisible Man - LimpidSoft

CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF KEMP’S
HOUSE
He started. There was a smash from below. He hesitated
and went downstairs again. Suddenly the house resounded
with heavy blows and the splintering of wood.
He heard a smash and the destructive clang of the iron
fastenings of the shutters. He turned the key and opened
the kitchen door. As he did so, the shutters, split and
splintering, came flying inward. He stood aghast. The
window frame, save for one crossbar, was still intact, but
only little teeth of glass remained in the frame. The shutters
had been driven in with an axe, and now the axe was
descending in sweeping blows upon the window frame
and the iron bars defending it. Then suddenly it leapt
aside and vanished. He saw the revolver lying on the
path outside, and then the little weapon sprang into the
air. He dodged back. The revolver cracked just too late,
and a splinter from the edge of the closing door flashed
over his head. He slammed and locked the door, and as
he stood outside he heard Griffin shouting and laughing.
Then the blows of the axe with its splitting and smashing
consequences, were resumed.
Kemp stood in the passage trying to think. In a moment
the Invisible Man would be in the kitchen. This
door would not keep him a moment, and then–
A ringing came at the front door again. It would be
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